RETIREMENT TO-DAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19826, 31 December 1938, Page 14

RETIREMENT TO-DAY

ARCHDEACON MACMURRAY SUCCESSOR ANNOUNCED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. After nearly 24 years' service as avchdeason of Auckland, the Ven. Archdeason G. Mac Murray will retire from that office to-day and will assume the title of Archdeacon Emeritus. Archdeacon Mac Murray, who was 83 in August, and celebrated his ministerial diamond jubilee on December 22, has been a resident of Auckland for 46 years. He was vicar of St.Mary's Cathedral from 1892 to 1919 and was appointed canon in 1901, archdeacon in 1915 and vicar-general of the Auckland diocese in 1930. He is the only survivor of the six trustees appointed in 1894 to administer the estate of the late James Dilworth, founder of the Dilworth School and has been chairman of the trust for the past 17 years. The new archdeacon of Auckland is the Ven. H. A. Hawkins, who for the past 26 years'has been Archdeacon of Waimate, supervising the district from Helensville to the North Cape. He is to be succeeded in that office bv the Rev. H. T. Steele, vicar of Whangarei. The archdeaconry of Auckland will be divided later into two under the titles of Auckland and Waitemata, the latter comprising the North Shore parishes and those adjacent to the Auckland side of the harbour. The name of the additional archdeacon required under this arrangement has yet to be announced;